Provides a comprehensive survey of women writers across four centuries of American history, including relevant personal, cultural and historical issues. (800+ entries)
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Abolition
the crusade for the emancipation of slaves, was a process begun with the sentiments contained in the Bill of Rights and African-Americans' contribution to the Revolutionary War.
Abortion
In 1962 , Shery Finkbine, a middle-class mother of four, became pregnant while using the tranquilizer thalidomide, a drug that had been found to produce severe birth defects in
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Activism
in the literature of American women writers can be discussed on many levels. A literary text can accomplish the work of raising political consciousness and inspiring political
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Abigail Adams
(1744 -- 1818 ), letter writer and advocate for women's rights, was born in Weymouth, Massachusetts, to William Smith, a Congregationalist minister, and Elizabeth Quincy.
Alice Adams
(1926 -- 1999 ), novelist and short story writer. The author of eight novels, four collections of stories, and one travel book about Mexico, Alice Adams has often
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Hannah Adams
(1755 -- 1832 ), researcher, historian, and writer. Hannah Adams was born in Medfield, Massachusetts, on 2 October 1755 , the third
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Adolescence
Fictions and autobiographies of adolescence comprise one of the largest and most diverse categories of American literature.
Ageism
The term ageism was coined in analogy with racism and sexism by psychiatrist and leading gerontologist Robert N.
Aging
The subject of aging has often been a central feature of women's literature since the late nineteenth century.
Meena Alexander
(b. 1951 ), poet, novelist, essayist, social activist, educator. Born in Allahabad, India, Meena Alexander moved to Khartoum with her parents when she was four.
MyWire Knowledge
Edith Abbott
(1876 -- 1957 ), American feminist, economist, and educator, grew up in Grand Island, Nebraska.
Acadian Writing
See Creole and Acadian Writing .
Kathy Acker
(1948 -- 1997 ), novelist, grew up in Manhattan and attended college mainly at Brandeis and the University of California, San Diego.
Jane Addams
(1860 -- 1935 ), social worker, peace advocate. One of the most important social reformers of the late nineteenth and early twentieth centuries, Jane Addams
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Adultery
See Marriage Laws .
Advice Books
are texts concerned with prescribing proper behavior for their readers. The locus of this concern may be any combination of outward actions and inner moral or psychological states.
Advocacy Writing
See Protest Writing .
